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Leipsic, Colloquy of Lenfant
gram from his Christian name Isaac, and is often referred to under this title. He studied at the College of Beauvais with his uncle, Antoine Arnauld (q.v.), was ordained priest in 1648, and in 1650 became spiritual director of the recluses at Port Royal. During the persecution of the Jansenists he was expelled from the monastery (1661) and on May 13, 1666, he was imprisoned in the Bastile. After his liberation, Oct. 31, 1668, he lived for a time with his cousin, the Marquis of Pomponne, in Brie. Later he went to Paris and returned to Port Royal in 1675. On having to leave the monastery a second time in 1679, he retired to Pomponne, where he spent the rest of his life. He was buried in the church of Port Royal.
Under various pen-names Lemaistre de Sacy was a prolific writer and was particularly successful as a translator, both of verse and prose. He is principally known for his French translations from the Bible. He collaborated with his brother Antoine Lemaistre on his Nouveau Testament (2 vols., Amsterdam, 1668), long known as the Nouveau Testament de Mons. This work was vehemently attacked by several bishops, condemned by Clement IX., defended by Arnauld and Nicole, and caused a controversy that lasted twenty years. The first instalments of a translation of the entire Bible, which Lemaistre de Sacy had begun while in the Bastile, appeared in 1672. After his death the work was completed by Thomas du Foss6 and C. Hur6 (32 vols., Paris, 1672-1706). See Bible Versions, B, VI., § 4. Among other translations of Lemaistre de Sacy are, Fables de Phedre (Paris, 1647); Comedies de Terence (1647); L 'Imitation de Jesus-Christ (1662), which passed through more than 150 editions. Bibliography: Consult the literature under Port-Royal.
LE MAITRE, le me'tr (MEISTER, MAISTER), JEAN HENRI: Swiss Protestant; b. at Zurich c. 1690; d. at Kussnacht (7 m. e.n.e. of Lucerne), 1774. He studied theology and philosophy at Zurich, espoused the cause of the Huguenots and became preacher of the French colony of Huguenots in Baireuth. In 1733 he was called to Biickeburg as assistant of Pierre Cregut, the court preacher and director of the Huguenot colony, whom he succeeded in 1738. He rendered valuable service to the gifted counts of Biickeburg, Friedrich Ludwig Karl and Albrecht Wolfgang, the sovereign of Schaumburg-Lippe, by introducing them into the philosophy of Malebranche, Pierre Bayle, Christian Wolff, Spinoza, and others, and by assuming the religious and scientific education of the two sons of Count Albrecht Wolfgang — Wilhelm and Georg. On account of the rigid church discipline which he introduced in the Huguenot colony, after the model of the Reformed Church in France, Le Maitre was secretly attacked and slandered, so that about 1747 he left Biickeburg and accepted a call to Erlangen. Later he returned to his native country and acted as preacher at Kussnacht, but his relations with his former pupil, Count Wilhelm, who in 1747 ascended the throne, always remained cordial.
(F. H. Brandes.)
Bibliography: Brandes, in Die franzosische Kolonie, 1895, nos. 10-12; idem, in Geschichtsblatter des deutschen Hugenottenvereins, vol. ill. nos. 7—8.
LEMME, LUDWIG: German Protestant; b. at Salzwedel (110 m. s.e. of Bremen), Aug. 8, 1847 He studied philosophy and theology in Berlin 1866-69, was private tutor, and then tutor at Gottingen 1872-74. In 1874 he was ordained, and was then assistant preacher at the cathedral and second inspector of the seminary for canons at Berlin for two years. From 1876 to 1888 he wat inspector of the Johanneum at Breslau, and from 1876 until 1881 also privat-docent at the University of Breslau, where he was appointed associate professor in 1881. In 1884 he was called to Bonn as professor of systematic theology, and since 1891 has occupied a similar position in Heidelberg. In theology he maintains a positive position, allied to that of I. A. Dorner and R. Rothe. He has written : Dos Verhaltniss der Dogmatik zu Kritik und Auslegung der heiligen Schrift nach Schleiermacher (Gottingen, 1874); Die drei grossen Reformationsschriften Luthers vom Jahre 1520 (Gotha, 1875); Das Evangelium in Bohmen (1877); Die religionsgeschichtliche Bedeutung des Dekalogs (Breslau, 1880); Die Ndchstenliebe (1881); Das erste Ermahnungsschreiben des Paulus an den Timotheus (1882); Die Siinde wider den heiligen Geist (1883); Die Pflege der Einbildungskraft (1884); Die Macht des Gebets mit besonderer Beziehung auf Krankenheilung (Barmen, 1887); Der Erf dig der Predigt (1888); Die Prinzipien der RitschV schen Theologie und ihr Wert (Bonn, 1891); Grundlage, Ziel und Eigentumlichkeit des theologischen Studiums (Heidelberg, 1891); Der Wert des Gebets (1892); Das Recht des apostolischen Glaubensbekenntnisses und seine Gegner (1893); Die Kirche die Gemeinschaft der Heiligen (1893); Heilstatsachen und Glaubenserfahrung (1894); Die Freundschaft (Heilbronn, 1897); Die Endlosigkeit der Verdammnis und die allgemeine Wiederbringung (Gross-Lichterfelde, 1899); Richard Rothes Hundertjahrfeier (Heidelberg, 1899); Zeugnisse vom Heil in Jesu Christo (sermons; 1899); Der gegenwartige Stand der Ethik (Carlsruhe, 1900) ; Das Wesen des Christentums und die Zukunftsreligion (Gross-Lichterfelde, 1901) ; Die Busse nach Schrift, Bekenntnis und Erfahrung (Herborn, 1901); Religionsgeschichtliche Entwicklung oder gbttliche Offenbarungf (Carlsruhe, 1901); Christliche Ethik (2 vols., Gross-Lichterfelde, 1905); Wer w.r Jesusf (Berlin, 1905); and Theologische Enzyklopadie (1909).
LENFANT, lan"fan', JACQUES: French Protestant; b. at Bazoches (50 m. s.w. of Paris) Apr. 13, 1661; d. at Berlin Aug. 7, 1728. He studied theology at Saumur and Geneva, and in 1684 he became preacher to the French congregation at Heidelberg. In 1688 Elector Frederick of Brandenburg (the first king of Prussia) appointed him pastor of the French church in Berlin, where he labored nearly forty years. He was a member of the supreme consistory and of the committee for the regulation of French emigration, and in 1724 became a member of the academy of sciences in Berlin. He was a prolific writer, but is prominent chiefly as a church historian. His principal works are: Histoire de la papesse Jeanne (Amsterdam, 1694); Histoire du Concile de Constance (1714; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1727; Eng. transl., 2 vols., London,
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